This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

The economic analyses of software piracy typically rely on the simplifying assumption that the product is offered by a … single producer. We argue that a realistic description of the software market and associated economic aspects of software … piracy might be also captured by studying competition between software developers. Using an illegal version of software …